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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial .................................................................................................................................... i

Audience .................................................................................................................................................. i

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ i

Copyright & Disclaimer............................................................................................................................. i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... ii

1. HTML – OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................. 1

Basic HTML Document ............................................................................................................................ 1

HTML Tags ............................................................................................................................................... 2

HTML Document Structure ...................................................................................................................... 3

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration .................................................................................................................. 3

2. HTML – BASIC TAGS............................................................................................................. 4

Heading Tags ........................................................................................................................................... 4

Paragraph Tag ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Line Break Tag ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Centering Content ................................................................................................................................... 6

Horizontal Lines ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Preserve Formatting ................................................................................................................................ 7

Nonbreaking Spaces ................................................................................................................................ 8

3. HTML – ELEMENTS ............................................................................................................ 10

HTML Tag vs. Element ........................................................................................................................... 10

Nested HTML Elements ......................................................................................................................... 10

4. HTML – ATTRIBUTES .......................................................................................................... 12

Core Attributes...................................................................................................................................... 13

Internationalization Attributes .............................................................................................................. 14

The xml:lang Attribute .......................................................................................................................... 16

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5. HTML – FORMATTING ....................................................................................................... 18

Bold Text ............................................................................................................................................... 18

Italic Text .............................................................................................................................................. 18

Underlined Text .................................................................................................................................... 19

Strike Text ............................................................................................................................................. 19

Monospaced Font ................................................................................................................................. 20

Superscript Text .................................................................................................................................... 20

Subscript Text ....................................................................................................................................... 21

Inserted Text ......................................................................................................................................... 21

Deleted Text .......................................................................................................................................... 22

Larger Text ............................................................................................................................................ 22

Smaller Text .......................................................................................................................................... 23

Grouping Content.................................................................................................................................. 23

6. HTML – PHRASE TAGS ....................................................................................................... 26

Emphasized Text ................................................................................................................................... 26

Marked Text .......................................................................................................................................... 26

Strong Text ............................................................................................................................................ 27

Text Abbreviation ................................................................................................................................. 27

Acronym Element .................................................................................................................................. 28

Text Direction........................................................................................................................................ 28

Special Terms ........................................................................................................................................ 29

Quoting Text ......................................................................................................................................... 29

Short Quotations ................................................................................................................................... 30

Text Citations ........................................................................................................................................ 30

Computer Code ..................................................................................................................................... 31

Keyboard Text ....................................................................................................................................... 31

Programming Variables ......................................................................................................................... 32

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Program Output .................................................................................................................................... 32

Address Text ......................................................................................................................................... 33

7. HTML – META TAGS .......................................................................................................... 34

Adding Meta Tags to Your Documents .................................................................................................. 34

Specifying Keywords ............................................................................................................................. 34

Document Description .......................................................................................................................... 35

Document Revision Date ....................................................................................................................... 35

Document Refreshing ............................................................................................................................ 36

Page Redirection ................................................................................................................................... 37

Setting Cookies...................................................................................................................................... 37

Setting Author Name ............................................................................................................................ 38

Specify Character Set ............................................................................................................................ 38

8. HTML – COMMENTS.......................................................................................................... 41

Valid vs Invalid Comments .................................................................................................................... 41

Multiline Comments.............................................................................................................................. 42

Conditional Comments .......................................................................................................................... 43

Using Comment Tag .............................................................................................................................. 43

Commenting Script Code ....................................................................................................................... 44

Commenting Style Sheets ...................................................................................................................... 45

9. HTML – IMAGES ................................................................................................................ 46

Insert Image .......................................................................................................................................... 46

Set Image Location ................................................................................................................................ 47

Set Image Width/Height ........................................................................................................................ 47

Set Image Border................................................................................................................................... 48

Set Image Alignment ............................................................................................................................. 49

Free Web Graphics ................................................................................................................................ 49

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10. HTML – TABLES ................................................................................................................. 50

Table Heading ....................................................................................................................................... 51

Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes ................................................................................................. 52

Colspan and Rowspan Attributes .......................................................................................................... 53

Tables Backgrounds............................................................................................................................... 53

Table Height and Width ........................................................................................................................ 55

Table Caption ........................................................................................................................................ 56

Table Header, Body, and Footer ............................................................................................................ 57

Nested Tables........................................................................................................................................ 58

11. HTML – LISTS ..................................................................................................................... 60

HTML Unordered Lists ........................................................................................................................... 60

The type Attribute ................................................................................................................................. 61

HTML Ordered Lists ............................................................................................................................... 63

The type Attribute ................................................................................................................................. 63

The start Attribute ................................................................................................................................ 67

HTML Definition Lists ............................................................................................................................ 67

12. HTML – TEXT LINKS............................................................................................................ 69

Linking Documents ................................................................................................................................ 69

The target Attribute .............................................................................................................................. 69

Use of Base Path ................................................................................................................................... 70

Linking to a Page Section ....................................................................................................................... 71

Setting Link Colors ................................................................................................................................. 72

Download Links ..................................................................................................................................... 72

File Download Dialog Box ...................................................................................................................... 73

13. HTML – IMAGE LINKS ........................................................................................................ 74

Mouse-Sensitive Images ........................................................................................................................ 74

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Server-Side Image Maps ........................................................................................................................ 75

Client-Side Image Maps ......................................................................................................................... 76

Coordinate System ................................................................................................................................ 77

14. HTML – EMAIL LINKS ......................................................................................................... 78

HTML Email Tag ..................................................................................................................................... 78

Default Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 78

15. HTML – FRAMES ................................................................................................................ 79

Disadvantages of Frames ...................................................................................................................... 79

Creating Frames .................................................................................................................................... 79

The <frameset> Tag Attributes .............................................................................................................. 81

The <frame> Tag Attributes ................................................................................................................... 82

Browser Support for Frames ................................................................................................................. 83

Frame's name and target attributes ...................................................................................................... 83

16. HTML – IFRAMES ............................................................................................................... 86

The <Iframe> Tag Attributes .................................................................................................................. 86

17. HTML – BLOCKS ................................................................................................................. 88

Block Elements ...................................................................................................................................... 88

Inline Elements ..................................................................................................................................... 88

Grouping HTML Elements ...................................................................................................................... 88

The <div> tag ......................................................................................................................................... 88

The <span> tag ...................................................................................................................................... 90

18. HTML – BACKGROUNDS .................................................................................................... 91

Html Background with Colors ................................................................................................................ 91

Html Background with Images .............................................................................................................. 92

Patterned & Transparent Backgrounds ................................................................................................. 93

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19. HTML – COLORS ................................................................................................................ 95

HTML Color Coding Methods ................................................................................................................. 95

HTML Colors - Color Names ................................................................................................................... 95

W3C Standard 16 Colors ........................................................................................................................ 96

HTML Colors - Hex Codes....................................................................................................................... 96

HTML Colors - RGB Values ..................................................................................................................... 98

Browser Safe Colors .............................................................................................................................. 99

20. HTML – FONTS ................................................................................................................ 102

Set Font Size ........................................................................................................................................ 102

Relative Font Size ................................................................................................................................ 103

Setting Font Face ................................................................................................................................. 104

Specify alternate font faces ................................................................................................................. 104

Setting Font Color ............................................................................................................................... 105

The <basefont> Element: .................................................................................................................... 105

Example of the <basefont> Element .................................................................................................... 106

21. HTML – FORMS ............................................................................................................... 107

Form Attributes ................................................................................................................................... 107

HTML Form Controls ........................................................................................................................... 108

Text Input Controls.............................................................................................................................. 108

Single-line text input controls ............................................................................................................. 108

Attributes ............................................................................................................................................ 109

Password Input controls ...................................................................................................................... 109

Attributes ............................................................................................................................................ 110

Multiple-Line Text Input Controls ........................................................................................................ 110

Attributes ............................................................................................................................................ 111

Checkbox Control ................................................................................................................................ 112

Attributes ............................................................................................................................................ 112

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Radio Button Control .......................................................................................................................... 113

Select Box Control ............................................................................................................................... 114

Attributes ............................................................................................................................................ 114

File Upload Box ................................................................................................................................... 115

Button Controls ................................................................................................................................... 116

Hidden Form Controls ......................................................................................................................... 117

22. HTML – EMBED MULTIMEDIA ......................................................................................... 118

The <embed> Tag Attributes ............................................................................................................... 119

Supported Video Types ....................................................................................................................... 119

Background Audio ............................................................................................................................... 120

HTML Object tag ................................................................................................................................. 121

23. HTML – MARQUEES......................................................................................................... 123

The <marquee> Tag Attributes ............................................................................................................ 123

24. HTML – HEADER .............................................................................................................. 126

The HTML <title> Tag .......................................................................................................................... 126

The HTML <meta> Tag ......................................................................................................................... 127

The HTML <base> Tag.......................................................................................................................... 128

The HTML <link> Tag ........................................................................................................................... 128

The HTML <style> Tag ......................................................................................................................... 129

The HTML <script> Tag ........................................................................................................................ 130

25. HTML – STYLE SHEET ....................................................................................................... 131

External Style Sheet ............................................................................................................................ 132

Internal Style Sheet ............................................................................................................................. 133

Inline Style Sheet ................................................................................................................................ 134

26. HTML JAVASCRIPT ........................................................................................................... 136

External JavaScript .............................................................................................................................. 136

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Internal Script ..................................................................................................................................... 137

Event Handlers .................................................................................................................................... 138

Hide Scripts from Older Browsers ....................................................................................................... 138

The <noscript> Element....................................................................................................................... 139

Default Scripting Language .................................................................................................................. 139

27. HTML – LAYOUTS............................................................................................................. 141

HTML Layout - Using Tables ................................................................................................................ 141

Multiple Columns Layout - Using Tables .............................................................................................. 142

HTML Layouts - Using DIV, SPAN ......................................................................................................... 144

28. HTML – TAG REFERENCE ................................................................................................. 146

HTML <comment> and <!--....--> Tag ................................................................................................... 153

Browser Support ................................................................................................................................. 154

HTML <doctype> Tag ........................................................................................................................... 154

HTML <a> Tag ...................................................................................................................................... 156

Global Attributes ................................................................................................................................. 156

Specific Attributes ............................................................................................................................... 156

Event Attributes .................................................................................................................................. 158

HTML <abbr> Tag ................................................................................................................................ 159

HTML <acronym> Tag .......................................................................................................................... 160

HTML <address> Tag ........................................................................................................................... 161

HTML <applet> Tag ............................................................................................................................. 162

HTML <area> Tag................................................................................................................................. 164

HTML <article> Tag .............................................................................................................................. 167

Global Attributes ................................................................................................................................. 168

Event Attributes .................................................................................................................................. 168

Browser Support ................................................................................................................................. 168

HTML <aside> Tag ............................................................................................................................... 168

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 1. HTML – OVERVIEW HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to
write Web Pages.

 Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked
together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.

 As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML
to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to
structure it to display.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information
between researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags
available in HTML language.

Basic HTML Document

In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

Either you can use Try it option available at the top right corner of the code box to check
the result of this HTML code, or let's save it in an HTML file test.htm using your favorite
text editor. Finally open it using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome,
or Firefox etc. It must show the following output:

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HTML Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the
content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags,
most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its
closing tag</html> and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags:

Tag Description

<!DOCTYPE...> This tag defines the document type and HTML version.

This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises
<html> of document header which is represented by <head>...</head> and
document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.

This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML
<head>
tags like <title>, <link> etc.

The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the
<title>
document title.

This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags
<body>
like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.

<h1> This tag represents the heading.

<p> This tag represents a paragraph.

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To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while
formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage
of different tags in order to format the text or images to make a beautiful webpage.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML
4.

HTML Document Structure

A typical HTML document will have the following structure:

Document declaration tag

<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>

<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>

We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, but for now let's see
what is document declaration tag.

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration tag is used by the web browser to understand the version
of the HTML used in the document. Current version of HTML is 5 and it makes use of the
following declaration:

<!DOCTYPE html>

There are many other declaration types which can be used in HTML document depending
on what version of HTML is being used. We will see more details on this while discussing
<!DOCTYPE...> tag along with other HTML tags.

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Heading Tags
Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings. HTML
also has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>,
<h5>, and <h6>. While displaying any heading, browser adds one line before and one
line after that heading.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Heading Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5>
<h6>This is heading 6</h6>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

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Paragraph Tag
The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each paragraph
of text should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as shown below in
the example:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Here is a first paragraph of text.

Here is a second paragraph of text.
Here is a third paragraph of text.

Line Break Tag

Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next line.
This tag is an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening and closing
tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.

The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br and the forward slash. If you omit
this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the
forward slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Line Break Example</title>
</head>
<body>

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<p>Hello<br />
You delivered your assignment on time.<br />
Thanks<br />
Mahnaz</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello
You delivered your assignment on time.
Thanks
Mahnaz

Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any table cell.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Centring Content Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This text is not in the center.</p>
<center>
<p>This text is in the center.</p>
</center>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This text is not in the center.

This text is in the center.

Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are used to visually break-up sections of a document. The <hr> tag
creates a line from the current position in the document to the right margin and breaks
the line accordingly.
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For example, you may want to give a line between two paragraphs as in the given example
below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Horizontal Line Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is paragraph one and should be on top</p>
<hr />
<p>This is paragraph two and should be at bottom</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is paragraph one and should be on top

This is paragraph two and should be at bottom

Again <hr /> tag is an example of the empty element, where you do not need opening
and closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.

The <hr /> element has a space between the characters hr and the forward slash. If you
omit this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the horizontal line, while if you
miss the forward slash character and just use <hr> it is not valid in XHTML

Preserve Formatting
Sometimes, you want your text to follow the exact format of how it is written in the HTML
document. In these cases, you can use the preformatted tag <pre>.

Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing </pre> tag will preserve the
formatting of the source document.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

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<title>Preserve Formatting Example</title>

</head>

<body>
<pre>
function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
</pre>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

function testFunction( strText ){

alert (strText)

Try using the same code without keeping it inside <pre>...</pre> tags

Nonbreaking Spaces
Suppose you want to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here, you would not want a browser
to split the "12, Angry" and "Men" across two lines:

An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

In cases, where you do not want the client browser to break text, you should use a
nonbreaking space entity &nbsp; instead of a normal space. For example, when coding
the "12 Angry Men" in a paragraph, you should use something similar to the following
code:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie
"12&nbsp;Angry&nbsp;Men."</p>
</body>
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</html>

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An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it
ends with a closing tag, where the element name is preceded by a forward slash as shown
below with few tags:

Start Tag Content End Tag

<p> This is paragraph content. </p>

<h1> This is heading content. </h1>

<div> This is division content. </div>

<br />

So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML element.

There are some HTML elements which don't need to be closed, such as <img.../>, <hr
/> and <br /> elements. These are known as void elements.

HTML documents consists of a tree of these elements and they specify how HTML
documents should be built, and what kind of content should be placed in what part of an
HTML document.

HTML Tag vs. Element

An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it
ends with a closing tag.

For example, <p> is starting tag of a paragraph and </p> is closing tag of the same
paragraph but <p>This is paragraph</p> is a paragraph element.

Nested HTML Elements

It is very much allowed to keep one HTML element inside another HTML element:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

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<title>Nested Elements Example</title>

</head>
<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

This will display the following result:

This is italic heading

This is underlined paragraph

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We have seen few HTML tags and their usage like heading tags <h1>, <h2>, paragraph
tag <p> and other tags. We used them so far in their simplest form, but most of the HTML
tags can also have attributes, which are extra bits of information.

An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is placed inside
the element's opening tag. All attributes are made up of two parts: a name and a value:

 The name is the property you want to set. For example, the paragraph <p>
element in the example carries an attribute whose name is align, which you can
use to indicate the alignment of paragraph on the page.

 The value is what you want the value of the property to be set and always put
within quotations. The below example shows three possible values of align
attribute: left, center and right.

Attribute names and attribute values are case-insensitive. However, the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) recommends lowercase attributes/attribute values in their HTML 4
recommendation.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>
<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>
<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>
</body>
</html>

This will display the following result:

This is left aligned

This is center aligned

This is right aligned

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Core Attributes
The four core attributes that can be used on the majority of HTML elements (although not
all) are:

 Id
 Title
 Class
 Style

The Id Attribute
The id attribute of an HTML tag can be used to uniquely identify any element within an
HTML page. There are two primary reasons that you might want to use an id attribute on
an element:

 If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier, it is possible to identify

just that element and its content.

 If you have two elements of the same name within a Web page (or style sheet),
you can use the id attribute to distinguish between elements that have the same
name.

We will discuss style sheet in separate tutorial. For now, let's use the id attribute to
distinguish between two paragraph elements as shown below.

Example
<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>
<p id="css">This para explains what is Cascading Style Sheet</p>

The title Attribute

The title attribute gives a suggested title for the element. They syntax for
the title attribute is similar as explained for id attribute:

The behavior of this attribute will depend upon the element that carries it, although it is
often displayed as a tooltip when cursor comes over the element or while the element is
loading.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The title Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>

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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Titled Heading Tag Example

Now try to bring your cursor over "Titled Heading Tag Example" and you will see that
whatever title you used in your code is coming out as a tooltip of the cursor.

The class Attribute

The class attribute is used to associate an element with a style sheet, and specifies the
class of element. You will learn more about the use of the class attribute when you will
learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). So for now you can avoid it.

The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class names. For example:

class="className1 className2 className3"

The style Attribute

The style attribute allows you to specify Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) rules within the
element.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The style Attribute</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Some text...

At this point of time, we are not learning CSS, so just let's proceed without bothering much
about CSS. Here, you need to understand what are HTML attributes and how they can be
used while formatting content.

Internationalization Attributes
There are three internationalization attributes, which are available for most (although not
all) XHTML elements.
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 dir
 lang
 xml:lang

The dir Attribute

The dir attribute allows you to indicate to the browser about the direction in which the text
should flow. The dir attribute can take one of two values, as you can see in the table that
follows:

Value Meaning

ltr Left to right (the default value)

rtl Right to left (for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic that are read right to left)

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="rtl">
<head>
<title>Display Directions</title>
</head>
<body>
This is how IE 5 renders right-to-left directed text.
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is how IE 5 renders right-to-left directed text.

When dir attribute is used within the <html> tag, it determines how text will be presented
within the entire document. When used within another tag, it controls the text's direction
for just the content of that tag.

The lang Attribute

The lang attribute allows you to indicate the main language used in a document, but this
attribute was kept in HTML only for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of HTML.
This attribute has been replaced by the xml:lang attribute in new XHTML documents.

The values of the lang attribute are ISO-639 standard two-character language codes.
Check HTML Language Codes: ISO 639 for a complete list of language codes.

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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>English Language Page</title>
</head>
<body>
This page is using English Language
</body>
</html>

The xml:lang Attribute

The xml:lang attribute is the XHTML replacement for the lang attribute. The value of
thexml:lang attribute should be an ISO-639 country code as mentioned in previous
section.

Generic Attributes
Here's a table of some other attributes that are readily usable with many of the HTML tags.

Attribute Options Function

align right, left, center Horizontally aligns tags

valign top, middle, bottom Vertically aligns tags within an HTML

element.

bgcolor numeric, hexidecimal, RGB Places a background color behind an

values element

background URL Places a background image behind an

element

id User Defined Names an element for use with Cascading

Style Sheets.

class User Defined Classifies an element for use with Cascading

Style Sheets.

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width Numeric Value Specifies the width of tables, images, or

table cells.

height Numeric Value Specifies the height of tables, images, or

table cells.

title User Defined "Pop-up" title of the elements.

We will see related examples as we will proceed to study other HTML tags. For a complete
list of HTML Tags and related attributes please check reference to HTML Tags List.

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If you use a word processor, you must be familiar with the ability to make text bold,
italicized, or underlined; these are just three of the ten options available to indicate how
text can appear in HTML and XHTML.

Bold Text
Anything that appears within <b>...</b> element, is displayed in bold as shown below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Bold Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a bold typeface.

Italic Text
Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element is displayed in italicized as shown
below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Italic Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <i>italicized</i> typeface.</p>

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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses an italicized typeface.

Underlined Text
Anything that appears within <u>...</u> element, is displayed with underline as shown
below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Underlined Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <u>underlined</u> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses an underlined typeface.

Strike Text
Anything that appears within <strike>...</strike> element is displayed with
strikethrough, which is a thin line through the text as shown below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strike Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strike>strikethrough</strike> typeface.</p>
</body>

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</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a strikethrough typeface.

Monospaced Font
The content of a <tt>...</tt> element is written in monospaced font. Most of the fonts
are known as variable-width fonts because different letters are of different widths (for
example, the letter 'm' is wider than the letter 'i'). In a monospaced font, however, each
letter has the same width.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Monospaced Font Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <tt>monospaced</tt> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a monospaced typeface.

Superscript Text
The content of a ^... element is written in superscript; the font size used is
the same size as the characters surrounding it but is displayed half a character's height
above the other characters.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Superscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a ^superscript typeface.</p>
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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a superscript typeface.

Subscript Text
The content of a _... element is written in subscript; the font size used is
the same as the characters surrounding it, but is displayed half a character's height
beneath the other characters.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Subscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a _subscript typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a subscript typeface.

Inserted Text
Anything that appears within <ins>...</ins> element is displayed as inserted text.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Inserted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>

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</html>

This will produce the following result:

Deleted Text
Anything that appears within <del>...</del> element, is displayed as deleted text.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Deleted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Larger Text
The content of the <big>...</big> element is displayed one font size larger than the rest
of the text surrounding it as shown below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Larger Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>
</body>

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</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a big typeface.

Smaller Text
The content of the <small>...</small> element is displayed one font size smaller than
the rest of the text surrounding it as shown below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Smaller Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <small>small</small> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a small typeface.

Grouping Content
The <div> and <span> elements allow you to group together several elements to create
sections or subsections of a page.

For example, you might want to put all of the footnotes on a page within a <div> element
to indicate that all of the elements within that <div> element relate to the footnotes. You
might then attach a style to this <div> element so that they appear using a special set of
style rules.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Div Tag Example</title>
</head>

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<body>
<div id="menu" align="middle" >
<a href="/index.htm">HOME</a> |
<a href="/about/contact_us.htm">CONTACT</a> |
<a href="/about/index.htm">ABOUT</a>
</div>

<div id="content" align="left" bgcolor="white">

<h5>Content Articles</h5>
<p>Actual content goes here.....</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

HOME | CONTACT | ABOUT

CONTENT ARTICLES

Actual content goes here.....

The <span> element, on the other hand, can be used to group inline elements only. So,
if you have a part of a sentence or paragraph which you want to group together, you could
use the <span> element as follows

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Span Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is the example of <span style="color:green">span tag</span> and the
<span style="color:red">div tag</span> alongwith CSS</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is the example of span tag and the div tag along with CSS

These tags are commonly used with CSS to allow you to attach a style to a section of a
page.
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The phrase tags have been desicolgned for specific purposes, though they are displayed
in a similar way as other basic tags like <b>, <i>, <pre>, and <tt>, you have seen in
previous chapter. This chapter will take you through all the important phrase tags, so let's
start seeing them one by one.

Emphasized Text
Anything that appears within <em>...</em> element is displayed as emphasized text.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Emphasized Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <em>emphasized</em> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses an emphasized typeface.

Marked Text
Anything that appears with-in <mark>...</mark> element, is displayed as marked with
yellow ink.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Marked Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word has been <mark>marked</mark> with yellow</p>

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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word has been marked with yellow.

Strong Text
Anything that appears within <strong>...</strong> element is displayed as important
text.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strong Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strong>strong</strong> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word uses a strong typeface.

Text Abbreviation
You can abbreviate a text by putting it inside opening <abbr> and closing </abbr> tags.
If present, the title attribute must contain this full description and nothing else.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Abbreviation</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My best friend's name is <abbr title="Abhishek">Abhy</abbr>.</p>
</body>

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</html>

This will produce the following result:

My best friend's name is Abhy.

Acronym Element
The <acronym> element allows you to indicate that the text between <acronym> and
</acronym> tags is an acronym.

At present, the major browsers do not change the appearance of the content of the
<acronym> element.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Acronym Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This chapter covers marking up text in <acronym>XHTML</acronym>.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This chapter covers marking up text in XHTML.

Text Direction
The <bdo>...</bdo> element stands for Bi-Directional Override and it is used to
override the current text direction.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Direction Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This text will go left to right.</p>
<p><bdo dir="rtl">This text will go right to left.</bdo></p>
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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This text will go left to right.

This text will go right to left.

Special Terms
The <dfn>...</dfn> element (or HTML Definition Element) allows you to specify that you
are introducing a special term. It's usage is similar to italic words in the midst of a
paragraph.

Typically, you would use the <dfn> element the first time you introduce a key term. Most
recent browsers render the content of a <dfn> element in an italic font.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Special Terms Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word is a <dfn>special</dfn> term.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following word is a special term.

Quoting Text
When you want to quote a passage from another source, you should put it in
between<blockquote>...</blockquote> tags.

Text inside a <blockquote> element is usually indented from the left and right edges of
the surrounding text, and sometimes uses an italicized font.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

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<title>Blockquote Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:</p>

<blockquote>XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on

from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:

XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from
earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.

Short Quotations
The <q>...</q> element is used when you want to add a double quote within a sentence.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Double Quote Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Amit is in Spain, <q>I think I am wrong</q>.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Amit is in Spain, I think I am wrong.

Text Citations
If you are quoting a text, you can indicate the source placing it between an
opening <cite>tag and closing </cite> tag

As you would expect in a print publication, the content of the <cite> element is rendered
in italicized text by default.

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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Citations Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This HTML tutorial is derived from <cite>W3 Standard for HTML</cite>.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This HTML tutorial is derived from W3 Standard for HTML.

Computer Code
Any programming code to appear on a Web page should be placed
inside <code>...</code>tags. Usually the content of the <code> element is presented
in a monospaced font, just like the code in most programming books.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Computer Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <code>This is code.</code> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Regular text. This is code. Regular text.

Keyboard Text
When you are talking about computers, if you want to tell a reader to enter some text,
you can use the <kbd>...</kbd> element to indicate what should be typed in, as in this
example.

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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Keyboard Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <kbd>This is inside kbd element</kbd> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Regular text. This is inside kbd element Regular text.

Programming Variables
This element is usually used in conjunction with the <pre> and <code> elements to
indicate that the content of that element is a variable.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Variable Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><code>document.write("<var>user-name</var>")</code></p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

document.write("user-name")

Program Output
The <samp>...</samp> element indicates sample output from a program, and script
etc. Again, it is mainly used when documenting programming or coding concepts.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
<head>
<title>Program Output Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Result produced by the program is <samp>Hello World!</samp></p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Result produced by the program is Hello World!

Address Text
The <address>...</address> element is used to contain any address.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Address Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<address>388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad</address>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad

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HTML lets you specify metadata - additional important information about a document in a
variety of ways. The META elements can be used to include name/value pairs describing
properties of the HTML document, such as author, expiry date, a list of keywords,
document author etc.

The <meta> tag is used to provide such additional information. This tag is an empty
element and so does not have a closing tag but it carries information within its attributes.

You can include one or more meta tags in your document based on what information you
want to keep in your document but in general, meta tags do not impact physical
appearance of the document so from appearance point of view, it does not matter if you
include them or not.

Adding Meta Tags to Your Documents

You can add metadata to your web pages by placing <meta> tags inside the header of
the document which is represented by <head> and </head> tags. A meta tag can have
following attributes in addition to core attributes:

Attribute Description

Name Name for the property. Can be anything. Examples include, keywords,
description, author, revised, generator etc.

content Specifies the property's value.

scheme Specifies a scheme to interpret the property's value (as declared in the
content attribute).

http- Used for http response message headers. For example, http-equiv can be
equiv used to refresh the page or to set a cookie. Values include content-type,
expires, refresh and set-cookie.

Specifying Keywords
You can use <meta> tag to specify important keywords related to the document and later
these keywords are used by the search engines while indexing your webpage for searching
purpose.

Example
Following is an example, where we are adding HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata as important
keywords about the document.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello HTML5!

Document Description
You can use <meta> tag to give a short description about the document. This again can
be used by various search engines while indexing your webpage for searching purpose.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

Document Revision Date

You can use <meta> tag to give information about when last time the document was
updated. This information can be used by various web browsers while refreshing your
webpage.

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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name="revised" content="Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

Document Refreshing
A <meta> tag can be used to specify a duration after which your web page will keep
refreshing automatically.

Example
If you want your page keep refreshing after every 5 seconds then use the following syntax.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name="revised" content="Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

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Page Redirection
You can use <meta> tag to redirect your page to any other webpage. You can also specify
a duration if you want to redirect the page after a certain number of seconds.

Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5 seconds. If
you want to redirect page immediately then do not specify content attribute.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name="revised" content="Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://www.tutorialspoint.com" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

Setting Cookies
Cookies are data, stored in small text files on your computer and it is exchanged between
web browser and web server to keep track of various information based on your web
application need.

You can use <meta> tag to store cookies on client side and later this information can be
used by the Web Server to track a site visitor.

Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5 seconds. If
you want to redirect page immediately then do not specify content attribute.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />

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<meta name="revised" content="Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />

<meta http-equiv="cookie" content="userid=xyz; expires=Wednesday, 08-Aug-15

23:59:59 GMT;" />

</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

If you do not include the expiration date and time, the cookie is considered a session
cookie and will be deleted when the user exits the browser.

Note: You can check PHP and Cookies tutorial for a complete detail on Cookies.

Setting Author Name

You can set an author name in a web page using meta tag. See an example below:

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta ame="author" content="Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

Specify Character Set

You can use <meta> tag to specify character set used within the webpage.

Example
By default, Web servers and Web browsers use ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding to process
Web pages. Following is an example to set UTF-8 encoding:

<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>

<head>

<title>Meta Tags Example</title>

<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />

<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta ame="author" content="Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

To serve the static page with traditional Chinese characters, the webpage must contain a
<meta> tag to set Big5 encoding:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta ame="author" content="Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Big5" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>

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Comment is a piece of code which is ignored by any web browser. It is a good practice to
add comments into your HTML code, especially in complex documents, to indicate sections
of a document, and any other notes to anyone looking at the code. Comments help you
and others understand your code and increases code readability.

HTML comments are placed in between <!-- ... --> tags. So, any content placed with-in
<!-- ... --> tags will be treated as comment and will be completely ignored by the browser.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> <!-- Document Header Starts -->
<title>This is document title</title>
</head> <!-- Document Header Ends -->
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result without displaying the content given as a part of
comments:

Document content goes here.....

Valid vs Invalid Comments

Comments do not nest which means a comment cannot be put inside another comment.
Second the double-dash sequence "--" may not appear inside a comment except as part
of the closing --> tag. You must also make sure that there are no spaces in the start-of-
comment string.

Example
Here, the given comment is a valid comment and will be wiped off by the browser.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Valid Comment Example</title>
</head>

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<body>
<!-- This is valid comment -->

<p>Document content goes here.....</p>

</body>
</html>

But, following line is not a valid comment and will be displayed by the browser. This is
because there is a space between the left angle bracket and the exclamation mark.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Invalid Comment Example</title>
</head>
<body>
< !-- This is not a valid comment -->
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

< !-- This is not a valid comment -->

Document content goes here.....

Multiline Comments
So far we have seen single line comments, but HTML supports multi-line comments as
well.

You can comment multiple lines by the special beginning tag <!-- and ending tag -->
placed before the first line and end of the last line as shown in the given example below.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Multiline Comments</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--
This is a multiline comment and it can
span through as many as lines you like.
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-->
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Document content goes here.....

Conditional Comments
Conditional comments only work in Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows but they are ignored
by other browsers. They are supported from Explorer 5 onwards, and you can use them
to give conditional instructions to different versions of IE.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Conditional Comments</title>

<!--[if IE 6]>
Special instructions for IE 6 here
<![endif]-->

</head>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

You will come across a situation where you will need to apply a different style sheet based
on different versions of Internet Explorer, in such situation conditional comments will be
helpful.

Using Comment Tag

There are few browsers that support <comment> tag to comment a part of HTML code.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Using Comment Tag</title>

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</head>
<body>
<p>This is <comment>not</comment> Internet Explorer.</p>
</body>
</html>

If you are using IE, then it will produce following result:

This is Internet Explorer.

But if you are not using IE, then it will produce following result:

This is Internet Explorer.

Commenting Script Code

Though you will learn JavaScript with HTML, in a separate tutorial, but here you must
make a note that if you are using Java Script or VB Script in your HTML code then it is
recommended to put that script code inside proper HTML comments so that old browsers
can work properly.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Commenting Script Code</title>
<script>
<!--
document.write("Hello World!")
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello , World!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello World!
Hello , World!

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Commenting Style Sheets

Though you will learn using style sheets with HTML in a separate tutorial, but here you
must make a note that if you are using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in your HTML code
then it is recommended to put that style sheet code inside proper HTML comments so that
old browsers can work properly.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Commenting Style Sheets</title>
<style>
<!--
.example {
border:1px solid #4a7d49;
}
//-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="example">Hello , World!</div>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

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Images are very important to beautify as well as to depict many complex concepts in
simple way on your web page. This tutorial will take you through simple steps to use
images in your web pages.

Insert Image
You can insert any image in your web page by using <img> tag. Following is the simple
syntax to use this tag.

<img src="Image URL" ... attributes-list/>

The <img> tag is an empty tag, which means that, it can contain only list of attributes
and it has no closing tag.

Example
To try following example, let's keep our HTML file test.htm and image file test.png in the
same directory:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Image in Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Simple Image Insert</p>
<img src="test.png" alt="Test Image" />
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Simple Image Insert

You can use PNG, JPEG or GIF image file based on your comfort but make sure you specify
correct image file name in src attribute. Image name is always case sensitive.

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The alt attribute is a mandatory attribute which specifies an alternate text for an image,
if the image cannot be displayed.

Set Image Location

Usually we keep all the images in a separate directory. So let's keep HTML file test.htm in
our home directory and create a subdirectory images inside the home directory where we
will keep our image test.png.

Example
Assuming our image location is "image/test.png", try the following example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Image in Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Simple Image Insert</p>
<img src="images/test.png" alt="Test Image" />
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Simple Image Insert

Set Image Width/Height

You can set image width and height based on your requirement using width and height
attributes. You can specify width and height of the image in terms of either pixels or
percentage of its actual size.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

<title>Set Image Width and Height</title>

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</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image width and height</p>
<img src="test.png" alt="Test Image" width="150" height="100"/>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Setting image width and height

Set Image Border

By default, image will have a border around it, you can specify border thickness in terms
of pixels using border attribute. A thickness of 0 means, no border around the picture.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Set Image Border</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image Border</p>
<img src="test.png" alt="Test Image" border="3"/>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Setting image Border

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Set Image Alignment

By default, image will align at the left side of the page, but you can use align attribute to
set it in the center or right.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Set Image Alignment</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image Alignment</p>
<img src="test.png" alt="Test Image" border="3" align="right"/>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Setting image Alignment

Free Web Graphics

For Free Web Graphics including patterns you can look into Free Web Graphics

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The HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links, other tables,
etc. into rows and columns of cells.

The HTML tables are created using the <table> tag in which the <tr> tag is used to create
table rows and <td> tag is used to create data cells.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2

Row 2, Column 1 Row 2, Column 2

Here, the border is an attribute of <table> tag and it is used to put a border across all
the cells. If you do not need a border, then you can use border="0".

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Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <th> tag. This tag will be put to replace <td> tag,
which is used to represent actual data cell. Normally you will put your top row as table
heading as shown below, otherwise you can use <th> element in any row.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Header</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Name Salary

Ramesh Raman 5000

Shabbir Hussein 7000

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Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes

There are two attributes called cellpadding and cellspacing which you will use to adjust the
white space in your table cells. The cellspacing attribute defines the width of the border,
while cellpadding represents the distance between cell borders and the content within a
cell.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Cellpadding</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Name Salary

Ramesh Raman 5000

Shabbir Hussein 7000

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Colspan and Rowspan Attributes

You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two or more columns into a single
column. Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to merge two or more rows.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Colspan/Rowspan</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell
3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Row 1 Cell 2 Row 1 Cell 3

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 2 Cell 2 Row 2 Cell 3

Row 3 Cell 1

Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the following two ways:

 bgcolor attribute - You can set background color for whole table or just for one
cell.

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 background attribute - You can set background image for whole table or just for
one cell.

You can also set border color also using bordercolor attribute.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" bgcolor="yellow">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell
3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Row 1 Cell 2 Row 1 Cell 3

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 2 Cell 2 Row 2 Cell 3

Row 3 Cell 1

Here is an example of using background attribute. Here we will use an image available
in /images directory.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>

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</head>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" background="/images/test.png">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell
3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result. Here background image did not apply to table's
header.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Row 1 Cell 2 Row 1 Cell 3

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 2 Cell 2 Row 2 Cell 3

Row 3 Cell 1

Table Height and Width

You can set a table width and height using width and height attributes. You can specify
table width or height in terms of pixels or in terms of percentage of available screen area.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Width/Height</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="400" height="150">

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<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2

Row 2, Column 1 Row 2, Column 2

Table Caption
The caption tag will serve as a title or explanation for the table and it shows up at the top
of the table. This tag is deprecated in newer version of HTML/XHTML.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Caption</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<tr>
<td>row 1, column 1</td><td>row 1, column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, column 1</td><td>row 2, column 2</td>
</tr>

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</table>

</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is the caption

row 1, column 1 row 1, column 2

row 2, column 1 row 2, column 2

Table Header, Body, and Footer

Tables can be divided into three portions: a header, a body, and a foot. The head and foot
are rather similar to headers and footers in a word-processed document that remain the
same for every page, while the body is the main content holder of the table.

The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are:

 <thead> - to create a separate table header.

 <tbody> - to indicate the main body of the table.
 <tfoot> - to create a separate table footer.

A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate different pages or groups of
data. But it is notable that <thead> and <tfoot> tags should appear before <tbody>

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the head of the table</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the foot of the table</td>

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</tr>
</tfoot>

<tbody>

<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is the head of the table

This is the foot of the table

Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 Cell 4

Nested Tables
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use almost all the tags
inside table data tag <td>.

Example
Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a table cell.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table border="1" width="100%">

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<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>

</tr>

<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Name Salary

Ramesh Raman 5000

Shabbir Hussein 7000

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HTML offers web authors three ways for specifying lists of information. All lists must
contain one or more list elements. Lists may contain:

 <ul> - An unordered list. This will list items using plain bullets.

 <ol> - An ordered list. This will use different schemes of numbers to list your
items.

 <dl> - A definition list. This arranges your items in the same way as they are
arranged in a dictionary.

HTML Unordered Lists

An unordered list is a collection of related items that have no special order or sequence.
This list is created by using HTML <ul> tag. Each item in the list is marked with a bullet.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

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The type Attribute

You can use type attribute for <ul> tag to specify the type of bullet you like. By default,
it is a disc. Following are the possible options:

<ul type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">

Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type="square">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul type="square">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type="disc">:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>

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<body>
<ul type="disc">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type="circle">:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul type="circle">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

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HTML Ordered Lists

If you are required to put your items in a numbered list instead of bulleted, then HTML
ordered list will be used. This list is created by using <ol> tag. The numbering starts at
one and is incremented by one for each successive ordered list element tagged with <li>.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

The type Attribute

You can use type attribute for <ol> tag to specify the type of numbering you like. By
default, it is a number. Following are the possible options:

<ol type="1"> - Default-Case Numerals.

<ol type="I"> - Upper-Case Numerals.
<ol type="i"> - Lower-Case Numerals.
<ol type="a"> - Lower-Case Letters.
<ol type="A"> - Upper-Case Letters.

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Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="1">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="1">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="I">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="I">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>

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</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="i">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="i">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="A">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
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<body>

<ol type="A">

<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="a">

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="a">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

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The start Attribute

You can use start attribute for <ol> tag to specify the starting point of numbering you
need. Following are the possible options:

<ol type="1" start="4"> - Numerals starts with 4.

<ol type="I" start="4"> - Numerals starts with IV.
<ol type="i" start="4"> - Numerals starts with iv.
<ol type="a" start="4"> - Letters starts with d.
<ol type="A" start="4"> - Letters starts with D.

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="i" start="4" >

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="i" start="4">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

HTML Definition Lists

HTML and XHTML supports a list style which is called definition lists where entries are
listed like in a dictionary or encyclopedia. The definition list is the ideal way to present a
glossary, list of terms, or other name/value list.

Definition List makes use of following three tags.

 <dl> - Defines the start of the list

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 <dt> - A term
 <dd> - Term definition
 </dl> - Defines the end of the list

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Definition List</title>
</head>
<body>
<dl>
<dt><b>HTML</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language</dd>
<dt><b>HTTP</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

HTML

This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP

This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

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A webpage can contain various links that take you directly to other pages and even specific
parts of a given page. These links are known as hyperlinks.

Hyperlinks allow visitors to navigate between Web sites by clicking on words, phrases, and
images. Thus you can create hyperlinks using text or images available on a webpage.

Note: I recommend you to go through a short tutorial on Understanding URL

Linking Documents
A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything between
the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link and a user can
click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the simple syntax to use <a>
tag.

<a href="Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link Text</a>

Example
Let's try following example which links http://www.tutorialspoint.com at your page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com" target="_self">Tutorials Point</a>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can click on the link generated to reach
to the home page of Tutorials Point (in this example).

Click following link

Tutorials Point

The target Attribute

We have used target attribute in our previous example. This attribute is used to specify
the location where linked document is opened. Following are the possible options:

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Option Description

_blank Opens the linked document in a new window or tab.

_self Opens the linked document in the same frame.

_parent Opens the linked document in the parent frame.

_top Opens the linked document in the full body of the window.

targetframe Opens the linked document in a named targetframe.

Example
Try following example to understand basic difference in few options given for target
attribute.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
<body>
<p>Click any of the following links</p>
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank">Opens in New</a> |
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_self">Opens in Self</a> |
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_parent">Opens in Parent</a> |
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_top">Opens in Body</a>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can click on different links to understand
the difference between various options given for target attribute.

Click any of the following links

Opens in New | Opens in Self | Opens in Parent | Opens in Body

Use of Base Path

When you link HTML documents related to the same website, it is not required to give a
complete URL for every link. You can get rid of it if you use <base> tag in your HTML
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document header. This tag is used to give a base path for all the links. So your browser
will concatenate given relative path to this base path and will make a complete URL.

Example
Following example makes use of <base> tag to specify base URL and later we can use
relative path to all the links instead of giving complete URL for every link.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank">HTML Tutorial</a>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can click on the link generated HTML
Tutorial to reach to the HTML tutorial.

Now given URL <a href="/html/index.htm" is being considered

as <ahref="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/index.htm"

Click following link

HTML Tutorial

Linking to a Page Section

You can create a link to a particular section of a given webpage by using name attribute.
This is a two-step process.

First create a link to the place where you want to reach with-in a webpage and name it
using <a...> tag as follows:

<h1>HTML Text Links <a name="top"></a></h1>

Second step is to create a hyperlink to link the document and place where you want to
reach:

<a href="/html/html_text_links.htm#top">Go to the Top</a>

This will produce following link, where you can click on the link generated Go to the Top to
reach to the top of the HTML Text Link tutorial.

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Go to the Top

Setting Link Colors

You can set colors of your links, active links and visited links using link, alink and vlink
attributes of <body> tag.

Example
Save the following in test.htm and open it in any web browser to see how link, alink and
vlink attributes work.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
<body alink="#54A250" link="#040404" vlink="#F40633">
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank" >HTML Tutorial</a>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result. Just check color of the link before clicking on it, next
check its color when you activate it and when the link has been visited.

Click following link

HTML Tutorial

Download Links
You can create text link to make your PDF, or DOC or ZIP files downloadable. This is very
simple; you just need to give complete URL of the downloadable file as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/page.pdf">Download PDF File</a>
</body>

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</html>

This will produce following link and will be used to download a file.

Download PDF File

File Download Dialog Box

Sometimes it is desired that you want to give an option where a user will click a link and
it will pop up a "File Download" box to the user instead of displaying actual content. This
is very easy and can be achieved using an HTTP header in your HTTP response.

For example, if you want make a Filename file downloadable from a given link then its
syntax will be as follows.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Additional HTTP Header

print "Content-Type:application/octet-stream; name=\"FileName\"\r\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"FileName\"\r\n\n";

# Open the target file and list down its content as follows
open( FILE, "<FileName" );
while(read(FILE, $buffer, 100)){
print("$buffer");
}

Note: For more detail on PERL CGI programs, go through tutorial PERL and CGI.

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We have seen how to create hypertext link using text and we also learnt how to use images
in our webpages. Now, we will learn how to use images to create hyperlinks.

Example
It's simple to use an image as hyperlink. We just need to use an image inside hyperlink at
the place of text as shown below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Image Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com" target="_self">
<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="Tutorials Point" border="0"/>
</a>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can click on the images to reach to the
home page of Tutorials Point.

Click following link

This was the simplest way of creating hyperlinks using images. Next we will see how we
can create Mouse-Sensitive Image Links.

Mouse-Sensitive Images
The HTML and XHTML standards provides a feature that lets you embed many different
links inside a single image. You can create different links on the single image based on
different coordinates available on the image. Once different links are attached to different
coordinates, we can click different parts of the image to open target documents. Such
mouse-sensitive images are known as image maps.

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There are two ways to create image maps:

 Server-side image maps - This is enabled by the ismap attribute of the <img>
tag and requires access to a server and related image-map processing applications.

 Client-side image maps - This is created with the usemap attribute of the
<img> tag, along with corresponding <map> and <area> tags.

Server-Side Image Maps

Here you simply put your image inside a hyper link and use ismap attribute which makes
it special image and when the user clicks some place within the image, the browser passes
the coordinates of the mouse pointer along with the URL specified in the <a> tag to the
web server. The server uses the mouse-pointer coordinates to determine which document
to deliver back to the browser.

When ismap is used, the href attribute of the containing <a> tag must contain the URL of
a server application like a cgi or PHP script etc. to process the incoming request based on
the passed coordinates.

The coordinates of the mouse position are screen pixels counted from the upper-left corner
of the image, beginning with (0,0). The coordinates, preceded by a question mark, are
added to the end of the URL.

For example, if a user clicks 20 pixels over and 30 pixels down from the upper-left corner
of the following image:

Click following link

Which has been generated by the following code snippet:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>ISMAP Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="/cgi-bin/ismap.cgi" target="_self">
<img ismap src="/images/logo.png" alt="Tutorials Point" border="0"/>
</a>
</body>
</html>

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Then the browser sends the following search parameters to the web server which can be
processed by ismap.cgi script or map file and you can link whatever documents you like
to these coordinates:

/cgi-bin/ismap.cgi?20,30

This way you can assign different links to different coordinates of the image and when
those coordinates are clicked, you can open corresponding linked document. To learn more
about ismap attribute, you can check How to use Image ismap?

Note: You will learn CGI programming when you will study Perl programming. You can
write your script to process these passed coordinates using PHP or any other script as well.
For now, let's concentrate on learning HTML and later you can revisit this section.

Client-Side Image Maps

Client side image maps are enabled by the usemap attribute of the <img /> tag and
defined by special <map> and <area> extension tags.

The image that is going to form the map is inserted into the page using the <img /> tag
as a normal image, except it carries an extra attribute called usemap. The value of the
usemap attribute is the value which will be used in a <map> tag to link map and image
tags. The <map> along with <area> tags define all the image coordinates and
corresponding links.

The <area> tag inside the map tag, specifies the shape and the coordinates to define the
boundaries of each clickable hotspot available on the image. Here's an example from the
image map:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>USEMAP Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Search and click the hotspot</p>
<img src=/https/www.scribd.com/images/html.gif alt="HTML Map" border="0" usemap="#html"/>
<!-- Create Mappings -->
<map name="html">
<area shape="circle"
coords="80,80,20" href="/css/index.htm" alt="CSS Link" target="_self" />
<area shape="rect"

coords="5,5,40,40" alt="jQuery Link" href="/jquery/index.htm" target="_self"

/>

</map>
</body>
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</html>

Coordinate System
The actual value of coords is totally dependent on the shape in question. Here is a
summary, to be followed by detailed examples:

rect = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2

x1 and y1 are the coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangle; x2 and y2 are the
coordinates of the lower right corner.

circle = xc , yc , radius

xc and yc are the coordinates of the center of the circle, and radius is the circle's radius. A
circle centered at 200,50 with a radius of 25 would have the attribute coords="200,50,25"

poly = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2 , x3 , y3 , ... xn , yn

The various x-y pairs define vertices (points) of the polygon, with a "line" being drawn
from one point to the next point. A diamond-shaped polygon with its top point at 20,20
and 40 pixels across at its widest points would have the attribute
coords="20,20,40,40,20,60,0,40".

All coordinates are relative to the upper-left corner of the image (0,0). Each shape has a
related URL. You can use any image software to know the coordinates of different
positions.

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– EMAIL LINKS HTML

It is not difficult to put an HTML email link on your webpage but it can cause unnecessary
spamming problem for your email account. There are people, who can run programs to
harvest these types of emails and later use them for spamming in various ways.

You can have another option to facilitate people to send you emails. One option could be
to use HTML forms to collect user data and then use PHP or CGI script to send an email.

A simple example, check our Contact Us Form. We take user feedback using this form and
then we are using one CGI program which is collecting this information and sending us
email to the one given email ID.

Note: You will learn about HTML Forms in HTML Forms and you will learn about CGI in our
another tutorial Perl CGI Programming.

HTML Email Tag

HTML <a> tag provides you option to specify an email address to send an email. While
using <a> tag as an email tag, you will use mailto: email address along
with href attribute. Following is the syntax of using mailto instead of using http.

<a href= "mailto: [email protected]">Send Email</a>

This code will generate the following link which you can use to send email.

Send Email

Now, if a user clicks this link, it launches one Email Client (like Lotus Notes, Outlook
Express etc. ) installed on your user's computer. There is another risk to use this option
to send email because if user do not have email client installed on their computer then it
would not be possible to send email.

Default Settings
You can specify a default email subject and email body along with your email address.
Following is the example to use default subject and body.

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Feedback&body=Message">
Send Feedback
</a>

This code will generate the following link which you can use to send email.

Send Feedback

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HTML frames are used to divide your browser window into multiple sections where each
section can load a separate HTML document. A collection of frames in the browser window
is known as a frameset. The window is divided into frames in a similar way the tables are
organized: into rows and columns.

Disadvantages of Frames
There are few drawbacks with using frames, so it's never recommended to use frames in
your webpages:

 Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames often because their screen is not
big enough to be divided up.

 Sometimes your page will be displayed differently on different computers due to

different screen resolution.

 The browser's back button might not work as the user hopes.

 There are still few browsers that do not support frame technology.

Creating Frames
To use frames on a page we use <frameset> tag instead of <body> tag. The <frameset>
tag defines, how to divide the window into frames. The rows attribute of <frameset> tag
defines horizontal frames and cols attribute defines vertical frames. Each frame is
indicated by <frame> tag and it defines which HTML document shall open into the frame.

Example
Following is the example to create three horizontal frames:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="10%,80%,10%">
<frame name="top" src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame name="main" src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame name="bottom" src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />
<noframes>
<body>

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Your browser does not support frames.

</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Example
Let's put the above example as follows, here we replaced rows attribute by cols and
changed their width. This will create all the three frames vertically:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="25%,50%,25%">
<frame name="left" src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame name="center" src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame name="right" src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />
<noframes>
<body>
Your browser does not support frames.
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

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This will produce the following result:

The <frameset> Tag Attributes

Following are important attributes of the <frameset> tag:

Attribute Description

Specifies how many columns are contained in the frameset and the size
of each column. You can specify the width of each column in one of the
four ways:

Absolute values in pixels. For example, to create three vertical frames,

use cols="100, 500,100".

A percentage of the browser window. For example, to create three

vertical frames, use cols="10%, 80%,10%".
cols
Using a wildcard symbol. For example, to create three vertical frames,
use cols="10%, *,10%". In this case wildcard takes remainder of the
window.

As relative widths of the browser window. For example, to create three

vertical frames, use cols="3*,2*,1*". This is an alternative to
percentages. You can use relative widths of the browser window. Here
the window is divided into sixths: the first column takes up half of the
window, the second takes one third, and the third takes one sixth.

This attribute works just like the cols attribute and takes the same
values, but it is used to specify the rows in the frameset. For example,
rows
to create two horizontal frames, use rows="10%, 90%". You can specify
the height of each row in the same way as explained above for columns.

This attribute specifies the width of the border of each frame in pixels.
border
For example, border="5". A value of zero means no border.

This attribute specifies whether a three-dimensional border should be

frameborder displayed between frames. This attribute takes value either 1 (yes) or 0
(no). For example frameborder="0" specifies no border.

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This attribute specifies the amount of space between frames in a

frameset. This can take any integer value. For example
framespacing
framespacing="10" means there should be 10 pixels spacing between
each frames.

The <frame> Tag Attributes

Following are the important attributes of <frame> tag:

Attribute Description

This attribute is used to give the file name that should be loaded in the
frame. Its value can be any URL. For example,
src
src="/html/top_frame.htm" will load an HTML file available in html
directory.

This attribute allows you to give a name to a frame. It is used to indicate

which frame a document should be loaded into. This is especially
name important when you want to create links in one frame that load pages
into an another frame, in which case the second frame needs a name to
identify itself as the target of the link.

This attribute specifies whether or not the borders of that frame are
shown; it overrides the value given in the frameborder attribute on the
frameborder
<frameset> tag if one is given, and this can take values either 1 (yes)
or 0 (no).

This attribute allows you to specify the width of the space between the
marginwidth left and right of the frame's borders and the frame's content. The value
is given in pixels. For example marginwidth="10".

This attribute allows you to specify the height of the space between the
marginheight top and bottom of the frame's borders and its contents. The value is
given in pixels. For example marginheight="10".

By default, you can resize any frame by clicking and dragging on the
noresize borders of a frame. The noresize attribute prevents a user from being
able to resize the frame. For example noresize="noresize".

This attribute controls the appearance of the scrollbars that appear on

scrolling the frame. This takes values either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example
scrolling="no" means it should not have scroll bars.

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This attribute allows you to provide a link to another page containing a

longdesc long description of the contents of the frame. For example
longdesc="framedescription.htm"

Browser Support for Frames

If a user is using any old browser or any browser, which does not support frames then
<noframes> element should be displayed to the user.

So you must place a <body> element inside the <noframes> element because the
<frameset> element is supposed to replace the <body> element, but if a browser does
not understand <frameset> element then it should understand what is inside the <body>
element which is contained in a <noframes> element.

You can put some nice message for your user having old browsers. For example, Sorry!!
your browser does not support frames. as shown in the above example.

Frame's name and target attributes

One of the most popular uses of frames is to place navigation bars in one frame and then
load main pages into a separate frame.

Let's see following example where a test.htm file has following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Target Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="200, *">
<frame src="/html/menu.htm" name="menu_page" />
<frame src="/html/main.htm" name="main_page" />
<noframes>
<body>
Your browser does not support frames.
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

Here, we have created two columns to fill with two frames. The first frame is 200 pixels
wide and will contain the navigation menu bar implemented by menu.htm file. The second
column fills in remaining space and will contain the main part of the page and it is
implemented by main.htm file. For all the three links available in menu bar, we have

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mentioned target frame as main_page, so whenever you click any of the links in menu
bar, available link will open in main page.

Following is the content of menu.htm file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body bgcolor="#4a7d49">
<a href="http://www.google.com" target="main_page">Google</a>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target="main_page">Microsoft</a>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" target="main_page">BBC News</a>
</body>
</html>

Following is the content of main.htm file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<h3>This is main page and content from any link will be displayed here.</h3>
<p>So now click any link and see the result.</p>
</body>
</html>

When we load test.htm file, it produces following result:

Now you can try to click links available in the left panel and see the result.
The targetattribute can also take one of the following values:

Option Description

_self Loads the page into the current frame.

_blank Loads a page into a new browser window.opening a new window.

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_parent Loads the page into the parent window, which in the case of a single
frameset is the main browser window.

_top Loads the page into the browser window, replacing any current frames.

targetframe Loads the page into a named targetframe.

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You can define an inline frame with HTML tag <iframe>. The <iframe> tag is not
somehow related to <frameset> tag, instead, it can appear anywhere in your document.
The <iframe> tag defines a rectangular region within the document in which the browser
can display a separate document, including scrollbars and borders.

The src attribute is used to specify the URL of the document that occupies the inline frame.

Example
Following is the example to show how to use the <iframe>:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Iframes</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here...</p>
<iframe src="/html/menu.htm" width="555" height="200">
Sorry your browser does not support inline frames.
</iframe>
<p>Document content also go here...</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Document content goes here...

Document content can also go here...

The <Iframe> Tag Attributes

Most of the attributes of the <iframe> tag, including name, class, frameborder, id,
longdesc, marginheight, marginwidth, name, scrolling, style, and title behave exactly like
the corresponding attributes for the <frame> tag.

Attribute Description

src This attribute is used to give the file name that should be loaded in the
frame. Its value can be any URL. For example,

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src="/html/top_frame.htm" will load an HTML file available in html

directory.

name This attribute allows you to give a name to a frame. It is used to indicate
which frame a document should be loaded into. This is especially
important when you want to create links in one frame that load pages
into an another frame, in which case the second frame needs a name to
identify itself as the target of the link.

frameborder This attribute specifies whether or not the borders of that frame are
shown; it overrides the value given in the frameborder attribute on the
<frameset> tag if one is given, and this can take values either 1 (yes)
or 0 (no).

marginwidth This attribute allows you to specify the width of the space between the
left and right of the frame's borders and the frame's content. The value
is given in pixels. For example marginwidth="10".

marginheight This attribute allows you to specify the height of the space between the
top and bottom of the frame's borders and its contents. The value is
given in pixels. For example marginheight="10".

noresize By default, you can resize any frame by clicking and dragging on the
borders of a frame. The noresize attribute prevents a user from being
able to resize the frame. For example noresize="noresize".

scrolling This attribute controls the appearance of the scrollbars that appear on
the frame. This takes values either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example
scrolling="no" means it should not have scroll bars.

longdesc This attribute allows you to provide a link to another page containing a
long description of the contents of the frame. For example
longdesc="framedescription.htm"

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All the HTML elements can be categorized into two categories (a) Block Level
Elements (b)Inline Elements.

Block Elements
Block elements appear on the screen as if they have a line break before and after them.
For example, the <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <ul>, <ol>, <dl>,
<pre>, <hr />, <blockquote>, and <address> elements are all block level elements. They
all start on their own new line, and anything that follows them appears on its own new
line.

Inline Elements
Inline elements, on the other hand, can appear within sentences and do not have to appear
on a new line of their own. The <b>, <i>, <u>, <em>, <strong>, <sup>, <sub>, <big>,
<small>, <li>, <ins>, <del>, <code>, <cite>, <dfn>, <kbd>, and <var> elements are
all inline elements.

Grouping HTML Elements

There are two important tags which we use very frequently to group various other HTML
tags (i) <div> tag and (ii) <span> tag

The <div> tag

This is the very important block level tag which plays a big role in grouping various other
HTML tags and applying CSS on group of elements. Even now <div> tag can be used to
create webpage layout where we define different parts (Left, Right, Top etc.) of the page
using <div> tag. This tag does not provide any visual change on the block but this has
more meaning when it is used with CSS.

Example
Following is a simple example of <div> tag. We will learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in
a separate chapter but we used it here to show the usage of <div> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML div Tag</title>
</head>
<body>

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<!-- First group of tags -->

<div style="color:red">
<h4>This is first group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of vegetables</p>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</div>

<!-- Second group of tags -->

<div style="color:green">
<h4>This is second group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of fruits</p>
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Banana</li>
<li>Mango</li>
<li>Strawberry</li>
</ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

THIS IS FIRST GROUP

Following is a list of vegetables

 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish

THIS IS SECOND GROUP

Following is a list of fruits
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 Apple
 Banana
 Mango
 Strawberry

The <span> tag

The HTML <span> is an inline element and it can be used to group inline-elements in an
HTML document. This tag also does not provide any visual change on the block but has
more meaning when it is used with CSS.

The difference between the <span> tag and the <div> tag is that the <span> tag is used
with inline elements whereas the <div> tag is used with block-level elements.

Example
Following is a simple example of <span> tag. We will learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
in a separate chapter but we used it here to show the usage of <span> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML span Tag</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is <span style="color:red">red</span> and this is <span

style="color:green">green</span></p>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is red, and this is green

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By default, your webpage background is white in color. You may not like it, but no worries.
HTML provides you following two good ways to decorate your webpage background.

 Html Background with Colors

 Html Background with Images

Now let's see both the approaches one by one using appropriate examples.

Html Background with Colors

The bgcolor attribute is used to control the background of an HTML element, specifically
page body and table backgrounds. Following is the syntax to use bgcolor attribute with
any HTML tag.

<tagname bgcolor="color_value"...>

This color_value can be given in any of the following formats:

<!-- Format 1 - Use color name -->

<table bgcolor="lime" >

<!-- Format 2 - Use hex value -->

<table bgcolor="#f1f1f1" >

<!-- Format 3 - Use color value in RGB terms -->

<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,120)" >

Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Colors</title>
</head>
<body>

<!-- Format 1 - Use color name -->

<table bgcolor="yellow" width="100%">

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<tr><td>
This background is yellow
</td></tr>
</table>

<!-- Format 2 - Use hex value -->

<table bgcolor="#6666FF" width="100%">
<tr><td>
This background is sky blue
</td></tr>
</table>

<!-- Format 3 - Use color value in RGB terms -->

<table bgcolor="rgb(255,0,255)" width="100%">
<tr><td>
This background is green
</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This background is yellow

This background is sky blue

This background is green

Html Background with Images

The background attribute can also be used to control the background of an HTML
element, specifically page body and table backgrounds. You can specify an image to set
background of your HTML page or table. Following is the syntax to use background
attribute with any HTML tag.

Note: The background attribute is deprecated and it is recommended to use Style Sheet for
background setting.

<tagname background="Image URL"...>

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Example
Here are the examples to set background images of a table.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>

<!-- Set table background -->

<table background="/images/html.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with HTML image.
</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This background is filled up with HTML image.

Patterned & Transparent Backgrounds

You might have seen many pattern or transparent backgrounds on various websites. This
simply can be achieved by using patterned image or transparent image in the background.

It is suggested that while creating patterns or transparent GIF or PNG images, use the
smallest dimensions possible even as small as 1x1 to avoid slow loading.

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Example
Here are the examples to set background pattern of a table:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>

<!-- Set a table background using pattern -->

<table background="/images/pattern1.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td></tr>
</table>

<!-- Another example on table background using pattern -->

<table background="/images/pattern2.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

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Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website. You can specify
colors on page level using <body> tag or you can set colors for individual tags
using bgcolor attribute.

The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set different colors:

 bgcolor - sets a color for the background of the page.

 text - sets a color for the body text.

 alink - sets a color for active links or selected links.

 link - sets a color for linked text.

 vlink - sets a color for visited links - that is, for linked text that you have
already clicked on.

HTML Color Coding Methods

There are following three different methods to set colors in your web page:

 Color names - You can specify color names directly like green, blue or red.

 Hex codes - A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green, and blue
that makes up the color.

 Color decimal or percentage values - This value is specified using the rgb()
property.

Now we will see these coloring schemes one by one.

HTML Colors - Color Names

You can specify direct a color name to set text or background color. W3C has listed 16
basic color names that will validate with an HTML validator but there are over 200 different
color names supported by major browsers.

Note: Check a complete list of HTML Color Name.

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W3C Standard 16 Colors

Here is the list of W3C Standard 16 Colors names and it is recommended to use them.

Black Gray Silver White

Yellow Lime Aqua Fuchsia

Red Green Blue Purple

Maroon Olive Navy Teal

Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color name:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Name</title>
</head>
<body text="blue" bgcolor="green">
<p>Use different color names for for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="black">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="white">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

HTML Colors - Hex Codes

A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two digits(RR) represent a
red value, the next two are a green value(GG), and the last are the blue value(BB).

A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe Photoshop,
Paintshop Pro or MS Paint.

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Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #. Following is a list of
few colors using hexadecimal notation.

Color Color HEX

#000000

#FF0000

#00FF00

#0000FF

#FFFF00

#00FFFF

#FF00FF

#C0C0C0

#FFFFFF

Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code in hexadecimal:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Hex</title>
</head>
<body text="#0000FF" bgcolor="#00FF00">
<p>Use different color hexa for for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="#FFFFFF">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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HTML Colors - RGB Values

This color value is specified using the rgb( ) property. This property takes three values,
one each for red, green, and blue. The value can be an integer between 0 and 255 or a
percentage.

Note: All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color so it is recommended not to use it.
Following is a list to show few colors using RGB values.

Color Color RGB

rgb(0,0,0)

rgb(255,0,0)

rgb(0,255,0)

rgb(0,0,255)

rgb(255,255,0)

rgb(0,255,255)

rgb(255,0,255)

rgb(192,192,192)

rgb(255,255,255)

Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code using rgb() values:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by RGB code</title>
</head>
<body text="rgb(0,0,255)" bgcolor="rgb(0,255,0)">
<p>Use different color code for for body and table and see the result.</p>

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<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,0)">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="rgb(255,255,255)">This text will appear white on black
background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Browser Safe Colors

Here is the list of 216 colors which are supposed to be safest and computer independent
colors. These colors very from hexa code 000000 to FFFFFF and they will be supported by
all the computers having 256 color palette.

000000 000033 000066 000099 0000CC 0000FF

003300 003333 003366 003399 0033CC 0033FF

006600 006633 006666 006699 0066CC 0066FF

009900 009933 009966 009999 0099CC 0099FF

00CC00 00CC33 00CC66 00CC99 00CCCC 00CCFF

00FF00 00FF33 00FF66 00FF99 00FFCC 00FFFF

330000 330033 330066 330099 3300CC 3300FF

333300 333333 333366 333399 3333CC 3333FF

336600 336633 336666 336699 3366CC 3366FF

339900 339933 339966 339999 3399CC 3399FF

33CC00 33CC33 33CC66 33CC99 33CCCC 33CCFF

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33FF00 33FF33 33FF66 33FF99 33FFCC 33FFFF

660000 660033 660066 660099 6600CC 6600FF

663300 663333 663366 663399 6633CC 6633FF

666600 666633 666666 666699 6666CC 6666FF

669900 669933 669966 669999 6699CC 6699FF

66CC00 66CC33 66CC66 66CC99 66CCCC 66CCFF

66FF00 66FF33 66FF66 66FF99 66FFCC 66FFFF

990000 990033 990066 990099 9900CC 9900FF

993300 993333 993366 993399 9933CC 9933FF

996600 996633 996666 996699 9966CC 9966FF

999900 999933 999966 999999 9999CC 9999FF

99CC00 99CC33 99CC66 99CC99 99CCCC 99CCFF

99FF00 99FF33 99FF66 99FF99 99FFCC 99FFFF

CC0000 CC0033 CC0066 CC0099 CC00CC CC00FF

CC3300 CC3333 CC3366 CC3399 CC33CC CC33FF

CC6600 CC6633 CC6666 CC6699 CC66CC CC66FF

CC9900 CC9933 CC9966 CC9999 CC99CC CC99FF

CCCC00 CCCC33 CCCC66 CCCC99 CCCCCC CCCCFF

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CCFF00 CCFF33 CCFF66 CCFF99 CCFFCC CCFFFF

FF0000 FF0033 FF0066 FF0099 FF00CC FF00FF

FF3300 FF3333 FF3366 FF3399 FF33CC FF33FF

FF6600 FF6633 FF6666 FF6699 FF66CC FF66FF

FF9900 FF9933 FF9966 FF9999 FF99CC FF99FF

FFCC00 FFCC33 FFCC66 FFCC99 FFCCCC FFCCFF

FFFF00 FFFF33 FFFF66 FFFF99 FFFFCC FFFFFF

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Fonts play a very important role in making a website more user friendly and increasing
content readability. Font face and color depends entirely on the computer and browser
that is being used to view your page but you can use HTML <font> tag to add style, size,
and color to the text on your website. You can use a <basefont> tag to set all of your
text to the same size, face, and color.

The font tag is having three attributes called size, color, and face to customize your fonts.
To change any of the font attributes at any time within your webpage, simply use the
<font> tag. The text that follows will remain changed until you close with the </font> tag.
You can change one or all of the font attributes within one <font> tag.

Note: The font and basefont tags are deprecated and it is supposed to be removed in a
future version of HTML. So they should not be used rather, it's suggested to use CSS styles
to manipulate your fonts. But still for learning purpose, this chapter will explain font and
basefont tags in detail.

Set Font Size

You can set content font size using size attribute. The range of accepted values is from
1(smallest) to 7(largest). The default size of a font is 3.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size="1">Font size="1"</font><br />
<font size="2">Font size="2"</font><br />
<font size="3">Font size="3"</font><br />
<font size="4">Font size="4"</font><br />
<font size="5">Font size="5"</font><br />
<font size="6">Font size="6"</font><br />
<font size="7">Font size="7"</font>
</body>
</html>

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This will produce the following result:

Font size="1"

Font size="2"
Font size="3"
Font size="4"
Font size="5"
Font size="6"
Font size="7"
Relative Font Size
You can specify how many sizes larger or how many sizes smaller than the preset font size
should be. You can specify it like <font size="+n"> or <font size="-n">

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Relative Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size="-1">Font size="-1"</font><br />
<font size="+1">Font size="+1"</font><br />
<font size="+2">Font size="+2"</font><br />
<font size="+3">Font size="+3"</font><br />
<font size="+4">Font size="+4"</font>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Font size="-1"
Font size="+1"
Font size="+2"
Font size="+3"
Font size="+4"
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Setting Font Face

You can set font face using face attribute but be aware that if the user viewing the page
doesn't have the font installed, they will not be able to see it. Instead user will see the
default font face applicable to the user's computer.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Font Face</title>
</head>
<body>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Times New Roman</font><br />
<font face="Verdana" size="5">Verdana</font><br />
<font face="Comic sans MS" size="5">Comic Sans MS</font><br />
<font face="WildWest" size="5">WildWest</font><br />
<font face="Bedrock" size="5">Bedrock</font><br />
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Times New Roman

Verdana
Comic Sans MS
WildWest
Bedrock

Specify alternate font faces

A visitor will only be able to see your font if they have that font installed on their computer.
So, it is possible to specify two or more font face alternatives by listing the font face
names, separated by a comma.

<font face="arial,helvetica">
<font face="Lucida Calligraphy,Comic Sans MS,Lucida Console">

When your page is loaded, their browser will display the first font face available. If none
of the given fonts are installed, then it will display the default font face Times New Roman.

Note: Check a complete list of HTML Standard Fonts.

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Setting Font Color

You can set any font color you like using color attribute. You can specify the color that you
want by either the color name or hexadecimal code for that color.

Note: You can check a complete list of HTML Color Name with Codes.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<font color="#FF00FF">This text is in pink</font><br />
<font color="red">This text is red</font>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This text is in pink

This text is red

The <basefont> Element:

The <basefont> element is supposed to set a default font size, color, and typeface for any
parts of the document that are not otherwise contained within a <font> tag. You can use
the <font> elements to override the <basefont> settings.

The <basefont> tag also takes color, size and face attributes and it will support relative
font setting by giving size a value of +1 for a size larger or -2 for two sizes smaller.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Basefont Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<basefont face="arial, verdana, sans-serif" size="2" color="#ff0000">
<p>This is the page's default font.</p>

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<h2>Example of the &lt;basefont&gt; Element</h2>

<p><font size="+2" color="darkgray">
This is darkgray text with two sizes larger
</font></p>

<p><font face="courier" size="-1" color="#000000">

It is a courier font, a size smaller and black in color.
</font></p>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is the page's default font.

Example of the <basefont> Element

This is darkgray text with two sizes larger

It is a courier font, a size smaller and black in color.

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HTML Forms are required, when you want to collect some data from the site visitor. For example,
during user registration you would like to collect information such as name, email address, credit
card, etc.
A form will take input from the site visitor and then will post it to a back-end application such as
CGI, ASP Script or PHP script etc. The back-end application will perform required processing on
the passed data based on defined business logic inside the application.
There are various form elements available like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio
buttons, checkboxes, etc.

The HTML <form> tag is used to create an HTML form and it has following syntax:

<form action="Script URL" method="GET|POST">

form elements like input, textarea etc.
</form>

Form Attributes
Apart from common attributes, following is a list of the most frequently used form
attributes:

Attribute Description

action Backend script ready to process your passed data.

method Method to be used to upload data. The most frequently used are GET and
POST methods.

target Specify the target window or frame where the result of the script will be
displayed. It takes values like _blank, _self, _parent etc.

enctype You can use the enctype attribute to specify how the browser encodes the
data before it sends it to the server. Possible values are:

application/x-www-form-urlencoded - This is the standard method most

forms use in simple scenarios.

mutlipart/form-data - This is used when you want to upload binary data in

the form of files like image, word file etc.

Note: You can refer to Perl & CGI for a detail on how form data upload works.

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HTML Form Controls

There are different types of form controls that you can use to collect data using HTML
form:

 Text Input Controls

 Checkboxes Controls
 Radio Box Controls
 Select Box Controls
 File Select boxes
 Hidden Controls
 Clickable Buttons
 Submit and Reset Button

Text Input Controls

There are three types of text input used on forms:

 Single-line text input controls - This control is used for items that require only
one line of user input, such as search boxes or names. They are created using
HTML <input> tag.

 Password input controls - This is also a single-line text input but it masks the
character as soon as a user enters it. They are also created using HTMl <input>
tag.

 Multi-line text input controls - This is used when the user is required to give
details that may be longer than a single sentence. Multi-line input controls are
created using HTML <textarea> tag.

Single-line text input controls

This control is used for items that require only one line of user input, such as search boxes
or names. They are created using HTML <input> tag.

Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line text input used to take first name and last name:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form >
First name: <input type="text" name="first_name" />
<br>

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Last name: <input type="text" name="last_name" />

</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

First name:
Last name:

Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating text field.

Attribute Description

type Indicates the type of input control and for text input control it will be set
totext.

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

value This can be used to provide an initial value inside the control.

size Allows to specify the width of the text-input control in terms of characters.

maxlength Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a user can enter into
the text box.

Password Input controls

This is also a single-line text input but it masks the character as soon as a user enters it.
They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to password.

Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line password input used to take user password:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Password Input Control</title>
</head>

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<body>
<form >
User ID : <input type="text" name="user_id" />
<br>
Password: <input type="password" name="password" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

User ID :
Password:

Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating password field.

Attribute Description

type Indicates the type of input control and for password input control it will be
set to password.

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

value This can be used to provide an initial value inside the control.

size Allows to specify the width of the text-input control in terms of characters.

maxlength Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a user can enter into
the text box.

Multiple-Line Text Input Controls

This is used when the user is required to give details that may be longer than a single
sentence. Multi-line input controls are created using HTML <textarea> tag.

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Example
Here is a basic example of a multi-line text input used to take item description:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Multiple-Line Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
Description: <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="description">
Enter description here...
</textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Description :

Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <textarea> tag.

Attribute Description

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

rows Indicates the number of rows of text area box.

cols Indicates the number of columns of text area box

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Checkbox Control
Checkboxes are used when more than one option is required to be selected. They are also
created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to checkbox.

Example
Here is an example HTML code for a form with two checkboxes:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Checkbox Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="maths" value="on"> Maths
<input type="checkbox" name="physics" value="on"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Maths Physics

Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <checkbox> tag.

Attribute Description

type Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it will be
set to checkbox.

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

value The value that will be used if the checkbox is selected.

checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.

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Radio Button Control

Radio buttons are used when out of many options, just one option is required to be
selected. They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to radio.

Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio buttons:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Radio Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="maths"> Maths
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="physics"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Maths Physics

Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for radio button.

Attribute Description

type Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it will be
set to radio.

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

value The value that will be used if the radio box is selected.

checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.

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Select Box Control

A select box, also called drop down box which provides option to list down various options
in the form of drop down list, from where a user can select one or more options.

Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Select Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<select name="dropdown">
<option value="Maths" selected>Maths</option>
<option value="Physics">Physics</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Maths

Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of <select> tag:

Attribute Description

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

size This can be used to present a scrolling list box.

multiple If set to "multiple" then allows a user to select multiple items from the
menu.

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Following is the list of important attributes of <option> tag:

Attribute Description

value The value that will be used if an option in the select box box is selected.

selected Specifies that this option should be the initially selected value when the
page loads.

label An alternative way of labeling options

File Upload Box

If you want to allow a user to upload a file to your web site, you will need to use a file
upload box, also known as a file select box. This is also created using the <input> element
but type attribute is set to file.

Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one file upload box:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="file" name="fileupload" accept="image/*" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of file upload box:

Attribute Description

name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.

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accept Specifies the types of files that the server accepts.

Button Controls
There are various ways in HTML to create clickable buttons. You can also create a clickable
button using <input> tag by setting its type attribute to button. The type attribute can
take the following values:

Type Description

submit This creates a button that automatically submits a form.

reset This creates a button that automatically resets form controls to their initial
values.

button This creates a button that is used to trigger a client-side script when the user
clicks that button.

image This creates a clickable button but we can use an image as background of the
button.

Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with three types of buttons:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
<input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" />
<input type="image" name="imagebutton" src="/html/images/logo.png" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

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This will produce the following result:

Submit Reset

Hidden Form Controls

Hidden form controls are used to hide data inside the page which later on can be pushed
to the server. This control hides inside the code and does not appear on the actual page.
For example, following hidden form is being used to keep current page number. When a
user will click next page then the value of hidden control will be sent to the web server
and there it will decide which page will be displayed next based on the passed current
page.

Example
Here is example HTML code to show the usage of hidden control:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<p>This is page 10</p>
<input type="hidden" name="pagename" value="10" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Top of Form

This is page 10

Submit Reset

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Sometimes you need to add music or video into your web page. The easiest way to add
video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML tag called <embed>. This
tag causes the browser itself to include controls for the multimedia automatically provided
browser supports <embed> tag and given media type.

You can also include a <noembed> tag for the browsers which don't recognize the
<embed> tag. You could, for example, use <embed> to display a movie of your choice,
and <noembed> to display a single JPG image if browser does not support <embed>
tag.

Example
Here is a simple example to play an embedded midi file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<embed src="/html/yourfile.mid" width="100%" height="60" >
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" alt="Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

You can put any media file in src attribute. You can try it yourself by giving various types
of files.

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The <embed> Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with <embed> tag.

Attribute Description

align Determines how to align the object. It can be set to either center, left or
right.

autostart This boolean attribute indicates if the media should start automatically. You
can set it either true or false.

loop Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to true), a
certain number of times (a positive value) or not at all (false)

playcount Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is alternate option
forloop if you are usiong IE.

hidden Specifies if the multimedia object should be shown on the page. A false
value means no and true values means yes.

width Width of the object in pixels

height Height of the object in pixels

name A name used to reference the object.

src URL of the object to be embedded.

volume Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).

Supported Video Types

You can use various media types like Flash movies (.swf), AVI's (.avi), and MOV's (.mov)
file types inside embed tag.

 .swf files - are the file types created by Macromedia's Flash program.
 .wmv files - are Microsoft's Window's Media Video file types.
 .mov files - are Apple's Quick Time Movie format.
 .mpeg files - are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert Group.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

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<title>HTML embed Tag</title>

</head>
<body>
<embed src="/html/yourfile.swf" width="200" height="200" >
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" alt="Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Background Audio
You can use HTML <bgsound> tag to play a soundtrack in the background of your
webpage. This tag is supported by Internet Explorer only and most of the other browsers
ignore this tag. It downloads and plays an audio file when the host document is first
downloaded by the user and displayed. The background sound file also will replay
whenever the user refreshes the browser.

This tag is having only two attributes loop and src. Both these attributes have same
meaning as explained above.

Here is a simple example to play a small midi file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<bgsound src="/html/yourfile.mid">
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" ></noembed>
</bgsound>
</body>
</html>

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This will produce the blank screen. This tag does not display any component and remains
hidden.

Internet Explorer can also handle only three different sound format files: wav, the native
format for PCs; au, the native format for most Unix workstations; and MIDI, a universal
music-encoding scheme.

HTML Object tag

HTML 4 introduces the <object> element, which offers an all-purpose solution to generic
object inclusion. The <object> element allows HTML authors to specify everything
required by an object for its presentation by a user agent.

Here are a few examples:

Example - 1
You can embed an HTML document in an HTML document itself as follows:

<object data="data/test.htm" type="text/html" width="300" height="200">

alt : <a href="data/test.htm">test.htm</a>
</object>

Here alt attribute will come into picture if browser does not support object tag.

Example - 2
You can embed a PDF document in an HTML document as follows:

<object data="data/test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200">

alt : <a href="data/test.pdf">test.htm</a>
</object>

Example - 3
You can specify some parameters related to the document with the <param> tag. Here
is an example to embed a wav file:

<object data="data/test.wav" type="audio/x-wav" width="200" height="20">

<param name="src" value="data/test.wav">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="autoStart" value="0">
alt : <a href="data/test.wav">test.wav</a>
</object>

Example - 4
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You can add a flash document as follows:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="penguin"

codebase="someplace/swflash.cab" width="200" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="flash/penguin.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<img src="penguin.jpg" width="200" height="300" alt="Penguin" />
</object>

Example - 5
You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows:

<object classid="clsid:8ad9c840-044e-11d1-b3e9-00805f499d93"
width="200" height="200">
<param name="code" value="applet.class">
</object>

The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You can use the
optional codebase attribute to specify if and how to download the JRE.

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An HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally across or

vertically down your webpage depending on the settings. This is created by using HTML
<marquees> tag.

Note: The HTML <marquee> tag may not be supported by various browsers so it is not
recommended to rely on this tag, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to create such
effects.

Syntax
A simple syntax to use HTML <marquee> tag is as follows:

<marquee attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes>

One or more lines or text message or image

</marquee>

The <marquee> Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with <marquee> tag.

Attribute Description

width This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or
20% etc.

height This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or
20% etc.

direction This specifies the direction in which marquee should scroll. This can be a
value like up, down, left or right.

behavior This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee. This can have a value
like scroll, slide and alternate.

scrolldelay This specifies how long to delay between each jump. This will have a
value like 10 etc.

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scrollamount This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can have a value like 10
etc.

loop This specifies how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE,
which means that the marquee loops endlessly.

bgcolor This specifies background color in terms of color name or color hex value.

hspace This specifies horizontal space around the marquee. This can be a value
like 10 or 20% etc.

vspace This specifies vertical space around the marquee. This can be a value like
10 or 20% etc.

Below are few examples to demonstrate the usage of marquee tag.

Examples - 1
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Examples - 2
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>

<marquee width="50%">This example will take only 50% width</marquee>

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</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Examples - 3
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction="right">This text will scroll from left to right</marquee>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Examples - 4
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction="up">This text will scroll from bottom to up</marquee>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

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We have learnt that a typical HTML document will have following structure:

Document declaration tag

<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>

<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>

This chapter will give a little more detail about header part which is represented by HTML
<head> tag. The <head> tag is a container of various important tags like <title>,
<meta>, <link>, <base>, <style>, <script>, and <noscript> tags.

The HTML <title> Tag

The HTML <title> tag is used for specifying the title of the HTML document. Following is
an example to give a title to an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Title Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

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The HTML <meta> Tag

The HTML <meta> tag is used to provide metadata about the HTML document which
includes information about page expiry, page author, list of keywords, page description
etc.

Following are few of the important usages of <meta> tag inside an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Meta Tag Example</title>

<!-- Provide list of keywords -->

<meta name="keywords" content="C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python">

<!-- Provide description of the page -->

<meta name="description" content="Simply Easy Learning by Tutorials Point">

<!-- Author information -->

<meta name="author" content="Tutorials Point">

<!-- Page content type -->

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

<!-- Page refreshing delay -->

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

<!-- Page expiry -->

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 21 June 2006 14:25:27 GMT">

<!-- Tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page -->
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>

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This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

The HTML <base> Tag

The HTML <base> tag is used for specifying the base URL for all relative URLs in a page,
which means all the other URLs will be concatenated into base URL while locating for the
given item.

For example, all the given pages and images will be searched after prefixing the given
URLs with base URL http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ directory:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Base Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
</head>
<body>

<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="Logo Image"/>

<a href="/html/index.htm" title="HTML Tutorial"/>HTML Tutorial</a>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

But if you change base URL to something else, for example, if base URL is
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/home then image and other given links will become like
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/home/images/logo.png and
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/home/html/index.htm

The HTML <link> Tag

The HTML <link> tag is used to specify relationships between the current document and
external resource. Following is an example to link an external style sheet file available
in css sub-directory within web root:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML link Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

The HTML <style> Tag

The HTML <style> tag is used to specify style sheet for the current HTML document.
Following is an example to define few style sheet rules inside <style> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML style Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<style type="text/css">
.myclass{
background-color: #aaa;
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="myclass">Hello, World!</p>

</body>

</html>

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This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

Note: To learn about how Cascading Style Sheet works, kindly check a separate tutorial
available at http://www.tutorialspoint.com/css

The HTML <script> Tag

The HTML <script> tag is used to include either external script file or to define internal
script for the HTML document. Following is an example where we are using JavaScript to
define a simple JavaScript function:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML script Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function Hello(){
alert("Hello, World");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="OK" />
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button:

Note: To learn about how JavaScript works, kindly check a separate tutorial
available at: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/JavaScript

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe how documents are presented on screens, in print,
or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets
on the Web since the consortium was founded in 1994.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide easy and effective alternatives to specify various
attributes for the HTML tags. Using CSS, you can specify a number of style properties for
a given HTML element. Each property has a name and a value, separated by a colon (:).
Each property declaration is separated by a semi-colon (;).

Example
First let's consider an example of HTML document which makes use of <font> tag and
associated attributes to specify text color and font size:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><font color="green" size="5">Hello, World!</font></p>
</body>
</html>

We can re-write above example with the help of Style Sheet as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:green;font-size:24px;">Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

Hello, World!

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You can use CSS in three ways in your HTML document:

 External Style Sheet: Define style sheet rules in a separate .css file and then
include that file in your HTML document using HTML <link> tag.

 Internal Style Sheet: Define style sheet rules in header section of the HTML
document using <style> tag.

 Inline Style Sheet: Define style sheet rules directly along-with the HTML elements
using style attribute.

Let's see all the three cases one by one with the help of suitable examples.

External Style Sheet

If you need to use your style sheet to various pages, then its always recommended to
define a common style sheet in a separate file. A cascading style sheet file will have
extension as .css and it will be included in HTML files using <link> tag.

Example
Consider we define a style sheet file style.css which has following rules:

.red{
color: red;
}
.thick{
font-size:20px;
}
.green{
color:green;
}

Here we defined three CSS rules which will be applicable to three different classes defined
for the HTML tags. I suggest you should not bother about how these rules are being defined
because you will learn them while studying CSS. Now let's make use of the above external
CSS file in our following HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML External CSS</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/html/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<p class="red">This is red</p>

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<p class="thick">This is thick</p>

<p class="green">This is green</p>

<p class="thick green">This is thick and green</p>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is red

This is thick

This is green

This is thick and green

Internal Style Sheet

If you want to apply Style Sheet rules to a single document only, then you can include
those rules in header section of the HTML document using <style> tag.

Rules defined in internal style sheet overrides the rules defined in an external CSS file.

Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules in the
same HTML document using <style> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Internal CSS</title>
<style type="text/css">
.red{
color: red;
}
.thick{
font-size:20px;
}
.green{

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color:green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="red">This is red</p>

<p class="thick">This is thick</p>

<p class="green">This is green</p>

<p class="thick green">This is thick and green</p>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is red

This is thick

This is green

This is thick and green

Inline Style Sheet

You can apply style sheet rules directly to any HTML element using style attribute of the
relevant tag. This should be done only when you are interested to make a particular change
in any HTML element only.

Rules defined inline with the element overrides the rules defined in an external CSS file as
well as the rules defined in <style> element.

Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules along
with the HTML elements using style attribute of those elements.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Inline CSS</title>
</head>

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<body>
<p style="color:red;">This is red</p>

<p style="font-size:20px;">This is thick</p>

<p style="color:green;">This is green</p>

<p style="color:green;font-size:20px;">This is thick and green</p>

</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is red

This is thick

This is green

This is thick and green

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 26. HTML JAVASCRIPT HTML

A script is a small piece of program that can add interactivity to your website. For
example, a script could generate a pop-up alert box message, or provide a dropdown
menu. This script could be written using JavaScript or VBScript.

You can write various small functions, called event handlers using any of the scripting
language and then you can trigger those functions using HTML attributes.

Now-a-days, only JavaScript and associated frameworks are being used by most of the
web developers, VBScript is not even supported by various major browsers.

You can keep JavaScript code in a separate file and then include it wherever it's needed,
or you can define functionality inside HTML document itself. Let's see both the cases one
by one with suitable examples.

External JavaScript
If you are going to define a functionality which will be used in various HTML documents
then it's better to keep that functionality in a separate JavaScript file and then include that
file in your HTML documents. A JavaScript file will have extension as .js and it will be
included in HTML files using <script> tag.

Example
Consider we define a small function using JavaScript in script.js which has following code:

function Hello()
{
alert("Hello, World");
}

Now let's make use of the above external JavaScript file in our following HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript External Script</title>
<script src="/html/script.js" type="text/JavaScript"/></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="Click Me" />
</body>

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</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button:

Internal Script
You can write your script code directly into your HTML document. Usually we keep script
code in header of the document using <script> tag, otherwise there is no restriction and
you can put your source code anywhere in the document but inside <script> tag.

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript Internal Script</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function Hello(){
alert("Hello, World");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="Click Me" />
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button:

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Event Handlers
Event handlers are nothing but simply defined functions which can be called against any
mouse or keyboard event. You can define your business logic inside your event handler
which can vary from a single to 1000s of line code.

Following example explains how to write an event handler. Let's write one simple
functionEventHandler() in the header of the document. We will call this function when any
user brings mouse over a paragraph.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Event Handlers Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function EventHandler(){
alert("I'm event handler!!");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p onmouseover="EventHandler();">Bring your mouse here to see an alert</p>
</body>
</html>

Now This will produce the following result. Bring your mouse over this line and see the
result:

Bring your mouse here to see an alert

Hide Scripts from Older Browsers

Although most (if not all) browsers these days support JavaScript, but still some older
browsers don't. If a browser doesn't support JavaScript, instead of running your script, it
would display the code to the user. To prevent this, you can simply place HTML comments
around the script as shown below.

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JavaScript Example:
<script type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("Hello JavaScript!");
//-->
</script>

VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">
<!--
document.write("Hello VBScript!")
'-->
</script>

The <noscript> Element

You can also provide alternative info to the users whose browsers don't support scripts
and for those users who have disabled script option their browsers. You can do this using
the<noscript> tag.

JavaScript Example:
<script type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("Hello JavaScript!");
//-->
</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">
<!--
document.write("Hello VBScript!")
'-->
</script>

<noscript>Your browser does not support VBScript!</noscript>

Default Scripting Language

There may be a situation when you will include multiple script files and ultimately using
multiple <script> tags. You can specify a default scripting language for all your script tags.
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This saves you from specifying the language every time you use a script tag within the
page. Below is the example:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/JavaScript" />

Note that you can still override the default by specifying a language within the script tag.

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 27. HTML – LAYOUTS HTML

A webpage layout is very important to give better look to your website. It takes
considerable time to design a website's layout with great look and feel.

Now- a-days, all modern websites are using CSS and JavaScript based framework to come
up with responsive and dynamic websites but you can create a good layout using simple
HTML tables or division tags in combination with other formatting tags. This chapter will
give you few examples on how to create a simple but working layout for your webpage
using pure HTML and its attributes.

HTML Layout - Using Tables

The simplest and most popular way of creating layouts is using HTML <table> tag. These
tables are arranged in columns and rows, so you can utilize these rows and columns in
whatever way you like.

Example
For example, the following HTML layout example is achieved using a table with 3 rows and
2 columns but the header and footer column spans both columns using the colspan
attribute:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layout using Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="50">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...

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</td>
<td bgcolor="#eee" width="100" height="200">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<center>
Copyright © 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

This is Web Page Main title

Main Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials
HTML
PHP
PERL...

Copyright © 2007 Tutorialspoint.com

Multiple Columns Layout - Using Tables

You can design your webpage to put your web content in multiple pages. You can keep
your content in middle column and you can use left column to use menu and right column
can be used to put advertisement or some other stuff. This layout will be very similar to
what we have at our website tutorialspoint.com.

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Example
Here is an example to create three column layout:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Three Column HTML Layout</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="20%">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
<td bgcolor="#b5dcb3" height="200" width="60%">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</td>
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="20%">
<b>Right Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
</tr>
<table>
</body>
</html>

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This will produce the following result:

Main Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials Right Menu

HTML HTML
PHP PHP
PERL... PERL...

HTML Layouts - Using DIV, SPAN

The <div> element is a block level element used for grouping HTML elements. While the
<div> tag is a block-level element, the HTML <span> element is used for grouping
elements at an inline level.

Although we can achieve pretty nice layouts with HTML tables, but tables weren't really
designed as a layout tool. Tables are more suited to presenting tabular data.

Note: This example makes use of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), so before understanding
this example you need to have a better understanding on how CSS works.

Example
Here we will try to achieve same result using <div> tag along with CSS, whatever you
have achieved using <table> tag in previous example.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layouts using DIV, SPAN</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width:100%">
<div style="background-color:#b5dcb3; width:100%">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#aaa; height:200px;width:100px;float:left;">
<div><b>Main Menu</b></div>
HTML<br />

PHP<br />
PERL...

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</div>
<div style="background-color:#eee; height:200px;width:350px;float:left;">

<p>Technical and Managerial Tutorials</p>

</div>
<div style="background-color:#aaa; height:200px;width:100px;float:right;">
<div><b>Right Menu</b></div>
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</div>
<div style="background-color:#b5dcb3;clear:both">
<center>
Copyright © 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
</center>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following result:

You can create better layout using DIV, SPAN along with CSS. For more information on
CSS, please refer to CSS Tutorial.
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4. HTML5 − Events

When users visit your website, they perform various activities such as clicking on text and
images and links, hover over defined elements, etc. These are examples of what JavaScript
calls events.

We can write our event handlers in Javascript or VBscript and you can specify these event
handlers as a value of event tag attribute. The HTML5 specification defines various event
attributes as listed below −

We can use the following set of attributes to trigger any javascript or vbscript code
given as value, when there is any event that takes place for any HTML5 element.

We would cover element-specific events while discussing those elements in detail in

subsequent chapters.

Attribute Value Description

offline script Triggers when the document goes offline

onabort script Triggers on an abort event

onafterprint script Triggers after the document is printed

onbeforeonload script Triggers before the document loads

onbeforeprint script Triggers before the document is printed

onblur script Triggers when the window loses focus

Triggers when media can start play, but might has to

oncanplay script
stop for buffering

Triggers when media can be played to the end, without

oncanplaythrough script
stopping for buffering

onchange script Triggers when an element changes

onclick script Triggers on a mouse click

oncontextmenu script Triggers when a context menu is triggered

ondblclick script Triggers on a mouse double-click

ondrag script Triggers when an element is dragged

ondragend script Triggers at the end of a drag operation

Triggers when an element has been dragged to a valid

ondragenter script
drop target

ondragleave script Triggers when an element leaves a valid drop target

Triggers when an element is being dragged over a valid

ondragover script
drop target

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ondragstart script Triggers at the start of a drag operation

ondrop script Triggers when dragged element is being dropped

ondurationchange script Triggers when the length of the media is changed

Triggers when a media resource element suddenly

onemptied script
becomes empty.

onended script Triggers when media has reach the end

onerror script Triggers when an error occur

onfocus script Triggers when the window gets focus

onformchange script Triggers when a form changes

onforminput script Triggers when a form gets user input

onhaschange script Triggers when the document has change

oninput script Triggers when an element gets user input

oninvalid script Triggers when an element is invalid

onkeydown script Triggers when a key is pressed

onkeypress script Triggers when a key is pressed and released

onkeyup script Triggers when a key is released

onload script Triggers when the document loads

onloadeddata script Triggers when media data is loaded

Triggers when the duration and other media data of a

onloadedmetadata script
media element is loaded

onloadstart script Triggers when the browser starts to load the media data

onmessage script Triggers when the message is triggered

onmousedown script Triggers when a mouse button is pressed

onmousemove script Triggers when the mouse pointer moves

Triggers when the mouse pointer moves out of an

onmouseout script
element

Triggers when the mouse pointer moves over an

onmouseover script
element

onmouseup script Triggers when a mouse button is released

onmousewheel script Triggers when the mouse wheel is being rotated

onoffline script Triggers when the document goes offline

onoine script Triggers when the document comes online

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ononline script Triggers when the document comes online

onpagehide script Triggers when the window is hidden

onpageshow script Triggers when the window becomes visible

onpause script Triggers when media data is paused

onplay script Triggers when media data is going to start playing

onplaying script Triggers when media data has start playing

onpopstate script Triggers when the window's history changes

onprogress script Triggers when the browser is fetching the media data

Triggers when the media data's playing rate has

onratechange script
changed

onreadystatechange script Triggers when the ready-state changes

onredo script Triggers when the document performs a redo

onresize script Triggers when the window is resized

onscroll script Triggers when an element's scrollbar is being scrolled

Triggers when a media element's seeking attribute is no

onseeked script
longer true, and the seeking has ended

Triggers when a media element's seeking attribute is

onseeking script
true, and the seeking has begun

onselect script Triggers when an element is selected

onstalled script Triggers when there is an error in fetching media data

onstorage script Triggers when a document loads

onsubmit script Triggers when a form is submitted

Triggers when the browser has been fetching media

onsuspend script data, but stopped before the entire media file was
fetched

ontimeupdate script Triggers when media changes its playing position

onundo script Triggers when a document performs an undo

onunload script Triggers when the user leaves the document

Triggers when media changes the volume, also when

onvolumechange script
volume is set to "mute"

Triggers when media has stopped playing, but is

onwaiting script
expected to resume

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